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Crime Time Soap

A play on Prime Time Soap — a Police Procedural drama that focuses as much on the complicated personal lives of its characters as it does on the crimes themselves.

As a Crime And Punishment show ages and begins to exhaust the variations of its genre, the producers will start to crank up the soap elements of the show to compensate.

Examples:

Against The Wall
A notable UK example of this is The Bill between 2002 and 2005.
Black And White is a Taiwanese Series involving two detectives, the female Forensic Doctor, and the only daughter of the local crime boss.
Blue Bloods
Bones
Castle: There haven't been any complicated soapy turns so far, but the focus definitely is on the private lives.
Without Brenda's truly wacky personal life, The Closer is a straight-up Detective Drama. With it, the show crosses the line into this. It's still pretty awesome, though.
CSI: Miami
CSI NY is heading into this territory as well, as of late.
Dexter
House started as a Police Procedural about chasing diseases instead of criminals. Now it's a Crime Time Soap about chasing diseases instead of criminals.
The typically plot-driven of Law & Order veered into this territory for its 7th and 8th seasons.
Following the departure of the original showrunner René Balcer after season 5, Law & Order: Criminal Intent began to veer down this path for the remainder of its run.
One could argue that this is ~~what is happening to~~ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
NCIS
NYPD Blue
Rookie Blue
Without A Trace cranks up the drama to literally insane levels with the personal life of Jack Malone. When he's apparently murdered in one episode it actually comes as a relief, more than anything else.